Date: May 24, 1756 (extract) “Real Estate Valuation of Joseph Warren Estate, land valued at 1345 Pounds.” Source: In John Collins Warren Papers II, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston Commentary: Widow Mary Stevens Warren took on considerable responsibility to keep the Roxbury family farm intact and viable following the untimely death of her husband, Joseph Warren […]
about Warren
Date: June 1774 Author: Attributed by a contemporary to Miss Mercy Scollay; Mercy Otis Warren the likely author “Sir, I was lately in a Company, where the conversation turned to the non-consumption agreement, and the vast importance of resolving not to purchase any thing but the necessities of life; in order to defeat the present […]
Date: September 27, 1774 Author: Hannah Fayerweather Winthrop “I have lately recieved great pleasure from an ingenious satire on that Female Foible Love of dress in the Royal American Magazine. I have heard the author guessd to be Miss Mercy Scollay and the Gentleman who requested it, Dr. Warren. I am not enough acquainted with […]
Date: April 13, 1764 Author: John Adams “My dearest We arrived at Captn. Cunninghams, about Twelve O’Clock and sent our Compliments to Dr. Perkins. The Courrier returned with Answer that the Dr. was determined to inoculate no more without a Preparation preevious to Inoculation. That We should have written to him and have received Directions […]
Date: 1800s, referring to 1764 Author: John Adams “In the Winter of 1764 the Small Pox prevailing in Boston, I went with my Brother into Town and was inocculated under the Direction of Dr. Nathaniel Perkins and Dr. Joseph Warren. This Distemper was very terrible even by Inocculation at that time. My Physicians dreaded it, […]
Author: X., a Loyalist pseudonym Date: March 18, 1768 “London, December 19. From the Public Ledger. To the Printer. If the People of Great Britain were not as remarkable for inconsistency as for any other of their distinguishing characteristics, one would be tempted to imagine them possessed of worse minds, than the most barbarous savages […]
Date: March 7, 1768 Author: Butler, probably a pseudonym “The scandalous, factious, threatning Piece, – nay the infamous, detestable virulent scrawl in Edes and Gill’s last Monday’s paper – that so truly deserved the censure of the lower – as well as the upper –, I find was explained away by – C—y and – […]
Date: March 7, 1768 Author: Observator, a pseudonym “I Observe in the Boston Gazette of the 29th of Feb. last [a] piece signed a True Patriot; — if scolding without reasoning, or alledging facts without proving them will intitle a man to the appellation of a true Patriot, he is justly intitled to it. It […]
Date: March 9, 1767 Author: Friend of the Province, a pseudonym “To Paskalos. As you by a long chain of poisonous suggestions and guilded falsities, have most assiduously attempted to inflame the minds of the people of this province, and irritate them against the G—r, whose firmness of mind dispises such mean arts, painting him […]
Date: February 2, 1767 Author: Roger De Coverly, a pseudonym “To the Publishers of the Boston Evening-Post. Please oblige your Readers by giving the following a Place in your next. Notwithstanding the great liberties which the warm opponents of Philanthrop have repeatedly taken with some of the most respectable characters among us, I must own, […]
